Archive for the 'Disney Cruise Line' Category

In Nassau, AquaDuck in action on Disney Dream.

The video took less than one hour to produce but nearly 20 hours to upload, thanks to the high demand on bandwidth on Disney Dream. Nonetheless, I now present you with yesterday’s news from the bleachers.

Mickey Mouse was present at Disney Dream's float out - as were other celebrities, including one big name from the Travel Channel. To find out who, view the video below.

Disney Cruise Line floated out its first new vessel in more than a decade today in Papenburg, Germany.

Disney Dream is the first of two ships that Meyer Werft shipyard is building for Disney.  Read more... (94 words, 1 image, estimated 23 secs reading time)

Disney Cruise Line will combine technology-infused innovations and imagination to create a whole new level of magical experiences for families sailing on its newest ship, the Disney Dream.

Throughout their cruise vacation, guests will encounter unexpected magic – such as a restaurant that transports guests under the sea, artwork that magically comes to life and youth clubs filled with immersive gaming environments and personalized character encounters.  Read more... (432 words, 4 images, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Disney Cruise Line debuts Remy, its first-ever premier dining option.

With French-inspired, gourmet cuisine by two award-winning chefs, Remy melds classic and contemporary styles in a sophisticated new dining concept exclusively for adults on the Disney Dream.

Chef Arnaud Lallement from l’Assiette Champenoise, a Michelin two-star restaurant just outside Reims, France, and Chef Scott Hunnel from award-winning Victoria & Albert’s at Walt Disney World Resort, are collaborating to create a French-inspired menu featuring superior products and seasonal ingredients sourced from around the world.  Read more... (164 words, 1 image, estimated 39 secs reading time)

For me, the beauty of a cruise is that I can have my cake and eat it too. There’s plenty of opportunity for family togetherness and much-needed time apart as well. If you’ve got little ones, it’s key of course to know the cruise lines’ age policies for kids programming. You don’t want to show up at the gangway only to realize yours are too young for the drop-off playroom (nightmare!). For those of you with older teens, it’s equally as important to know when your young adults can (and can’t) drink and gamble. Read on for the skinny.  Read more... (1243 words, estimated 4:58 mins reading time)

With two new ships in the pipeline for 2011 and 2012, it makes perfect sense that Disney is expanding its horizons and cruising Alaska in 2011. This news comes on the heels of the announcement a few months back that the line is also heading back to the Med in summer 2010 and offering fist-time calls on Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Warnemunde, Germany, the gateway to Berlin and St. Petersburg, Russia.  Read more... (83 words, 1 image, estimated 20 secs reading time)

This week, we take a look back at some of old, but still relevant, stories. “Bigger, Better, New & Improved” originally was written for United Airlines’ award-winning magazine, Hemispheres – in 1998! Clearly, not much has changed.

Bigger, Better, New & Improved?

Listen to the cruise industry-an industry fixated on superlatives. Hear claims to possessing the world’s largest ship, the most expensive ship, the largest ship to transit the Panama Canal, “the highest-rated premium cruise line” (a claim made by Celebrity Cruises), “the only premium cruise line” (a counter claim made by Holland America Line), “the highest-rated major cruise line of more than two ships” (a claim unearthed only after excavating deep into a recent Conde Nast Traveler reader poll), the largest casino afloat, the largest verandas afloat, the largest suites afloat (still with us?), the largest suites with verandas afloat . . . well, you get the picture.  Read more... (825 words, estimated 3:18 mins reading time)

Peripheral expenses during a summer voyage with Disney Cruise Line just went down substantially as the line has announced a spending credit for guests booking a veranda stateroom. Also, leveraging its relationship with the Disney Channel, the cruise line is bringing some of its popular young stars on board for several summer sailings on the Disney Wonder.  Read more... (349 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

The cruise era of assigned tables and seating times appears to have run its course and is fast being eclipsed by one of the industry’s most attractive recent innovations: alternative eateries.

Food. Glorious food. A fundamental appeal of a cruise holiday, shipboard food has been consistently abundant since ships first started carrying passengers for leisure travel. Even when the ships offered little more than dolled-up mess halls, to which everyone flocked for one of two scheduled feedings, the fare was usually quite respectable and always plentiful.  Read more... (2802 words, 7 images, estimated 11:12 mins reading time)